Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland

Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (1610-20 September 1643) was an English nobleman and Cavalier general during the English Civil War. He was killed at the First Battle of Newbury.

Biography
Lucius Cary was born in Burford, Oxfordshire, England in 1610, the son of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1625, and, after a quarrel with his father, he briefly ran off to serve in the Dutch States Army during the Dutch Revolt, but he returned in 1633 to inherit his father's viscountcy. He became known for his intellectural pleasures, and he was close friends with Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. He served under Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex during the Bishops' Wars of 1639, and he became MP for Newport in 1640. While he supported the prosecution of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford in 1641, he supported King Charles I of England during the English Civil War. He fought at the Battle of Edgehill and in the siege of Gloucester, but he grew disillusioned with the royalist cause and with the hard times which England was facing. On the morning of 20 September 1643, the day of the First Battle of Newbury, he declared to his friends that he was weary of the times and sought to die that night. During the ensuing battle, while serving under John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, he rode alone towards a hedge near the Parliamentarian line, and he was immediately killed by a musket volley at the age of 33.